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Special Projects 2008 Awards

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Enjoy & Participate: 4Culture Funds 52 New Group Art Projects for King County
 
2008 Organizations
Organization Title Award Discipline
Alliance Francaise de Seattle A Week Celebrating the Graphic Novel $4,000 Literary
Artoleptic Artoleptic $2,000 Community
Asian Counseling Service Community Quilt Project $5,000 Visual Arts
At the Ridge Theatre Peter Pan Theatre Camp $2,000 Theatre
Bellevue Downtown Assoc. Bellevue Jazz Festival $8,000 Music
BQdanza Frame $4,800 Dance
Brazil Center for Brasilfest Rose Max & Ramatis de Moraes at BrasilFest $2,384 Community
Broadway Bound Children's Theatre Outreach Project Choreographers' Collaboration $4,500 Theatre
Bus No. 8 LLC Christiania: Our Heart is in Your Hands $2,500 Media
Century Ballroom Masters of Lind Hop & Tap 2008 $4,000 Dance
dirty girl productions Hot Girls $2,500 Interdisciplinary
Eastside Nihon Matsuri Assoc. Aki Matsuri $3,250 Community
Ethnic Heritage for CroatiaFest Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra $4,854 Community
Evening of Sevdah Evening of Sevdah: Love Songs of Bosnia & Herzegovina $3,150 Music
Friends of Third Place Commons Third Plays Music Festival $4,000 Music
La Jefa Cultural Collisions: Women Poets & Their Craft $5,000 Literary
La Sala Strengthening Cultural Communities $1,500 Community
Latino Cultural Magazine Web page latinoculturalmagazine.com $3,700 Media
Lelavision Musico Ballistica $5,000 Interdisciplinary
locust crushed $3,750 Interdisciplinary
Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab Bloody Henry $5,000 Theatre
Monktail Creative Music Concern Sounds Outside: A Celebration of Adventurous Music $6,000 Community
Mujeres: Spanish-English Writers Bilingual Literary Reading Series $4,500 Literary
Musical Connections Master Music Concert Series $2,000 Music
Nebunele Theatre We're Hiking to the Top of a Mountain $4,000 Theatre
Northwest Asian Am. Film Festival NWAAFF 2009 $4,000 Media
Omentum Zine Omentum Zine $1,000 Literary
One Family Inc. Oziya: A Legend of Many $6,000 Interdisciplinary
Pacific Ballroom Dance Feelin' Good $3,100 Dance
Rainier Chorale Holiday Concert $2,000 Music
Rainier Youth Choirs Rainier Kids Honor Choir $1,500 Music
RIVET Magazine R21: The RIGHT Issue $2,000 Literary
S.L.A.M. Festival 2008 SLAM Festival $3,260 Music
Seattle Dance Project Project Eurydice $4,000 Dance
Seattle Improvised Music Seattle Improvised Music Festival $5,000 Music
Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2009 Seattle Jewish Film Festival $2,500 Media
Seattle Weekly Seattle Weekly's Artopia $2,000 Interdisciplinary
SITE Specific SITE Specific $3,000 Theatre
Sketchfest Sketchfest Seattle 2008 $1,300 Theatre
SuttonBeresCuller Mini-Mart City Park $5,000 Interdisciplinary
TASVEER 5th Independent South Asian Film Festival $5,000 Media
The Living Barge Project Living Barge Project Video $1,000 Media
Theatre at Meydenbauer Contemporary Dance @ Meydenbauer $3,500 Dance
theatre simple The Snow Queen: Gerda's Journey $7,000 Theatre
Truth Sessions Truth Sessions $7,950 Visual Arts
Tukwila Historical Society Tukwila Centennial Musical Heritage CD Project & NW Boychoir Concert $6,000 Music
UMO Rubble Women $6,000 Theatre
Valley Center Stage Open House $5,000 Theatre
Washington Composers Forum Transport concert series. $3,000 Music
White Center Teen Program White Center Teen Art Program $5,000 Community
World Kulturz Prophecy to Promise Indigenous Climate Change Prophecies $2,500 Community
Young Shakespeare Workshop YSW Revolving Company Romeo & Juliet $5,000 Theatre
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See, Hear, Feel — Experience: 4Culture Funds 75 New Artists Projects for King County
2008 Individual Awards
Name Title Discipline Award
Andrea Allen The Unregistered Theater $1,600
Javier Amaya Tales of Love and Distance Literary $2,300
Nola Avienne Blood Visual $5,000
Tom Baker After the End of Time Music $3,000
Debra Baxter Time Table Visual $4,400
Lillias Bever The Restorer's Art Literary $1,500
Jennifer Borges Foster Poetry Manuscript: Uneasy Heavens Await Those Fleeing Literary $6,000
James Coupe Surveillance Suite Visual $5,150
Jeff Crandall Poetry Manuscript Publication Project and Reading Series Literary $2,000
Drew Daly Visual Fiction Visual $7,000
Peter de Lory Epson Printer Upgrade Visual $2,195
Anthony DeFilipps Website and production of "The Tale of Two Bad Mice" Interdisciplinary $1,000
Amy Denio Sonic Bench Installation at One Reel Visual Arts Program Interdisciplinary $3,000
Joel Durand Trio for flute, viola and harp Music $5,000
Suzanne Edison Healing Art of Poetry: For Families, Medical Professionals and Children Literary $2,000
Steve Edmiston The Day My Parents Became Cool Media $1,000
Eric Eley Tunguska Sculpture Visual $3,500
Donald Fels Back and Forth Theater $3,500
Anita Feng Buddha Doing the Breaststroke Literary $5,000
John Feodorov Feeding the Gods Interdisciplinary $2,500
Christian French Altrove, a Photo-Opera Visual $3,500
Kathleen Fruge-Brown Glass Forest Visual $2,500
Ford Gilbreath Margaret Makes Art Media $1,864
Lori Goldston Spectratone Studies Music $2,275
Chad Goller-Sojourner Sitting In Circles With Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy Theater $3,500
Felicia Gonzalez Swimming in Mercury Literary $3,200
John Grade Meridian Visual $7,000
Cable Griffith Contained Space Visual $1,700
Dayna Hanson Rainbow Media $7,500
John Helde Corn and Soybeans Media $3,500
Keith Hitchcock Muffin Face Theater $2,300
Robin Holcomb Composition and Publication of New Music for Solo Piano Music $5,000
Salise Hughes New Works Media $7,000
Etsuko Ichikawa Traces of the Molten State Visual $5,200
Britta Johnson Crashing Waves Media $7,200
Jane Kies From Seed to Sound Visual $4,500
Aiko Kinoshita EDGE Dance $2,500
Vincent Kovar Gay City Anthology Literary $5,000
Mik Kuhlman Shadows: Women Inside the Civil Rights Movement Interdisciplinary $2,500
Susie Lee The Indivisibility of a Line Interdisciplinary $4,000
Phillip Levine Myth, Memory and Image Visual $5,000
Perri Lynch Building #38 Interdisciplinary $6,659
Ricki Mason pro re nata Dance $5,000
Tim Matsui Cambodia: From Victim to Survivor Visual $7,500
Eduardo Mendonca Brazil and Me Music $1,000
Susan Meyers The Candybutcher's Daughter Literary $5,000
Gabriel Miller Creative Currents Media $2,500
David Miller Love in the Year 2000 Media $2,500
Saya Moriyasu Mountains and Gems (working title) Visual $4,000
Lucia Neare Geistbrucke Interdisciplinary $2,000
Marissa Niederhauser Tracings Media $7,500
KT Niehoff Parts Don't Work Interdisciplinary $4,500
Haruko Nishimura Collaboration: Movement/Sound/Video/Textiles Interdisciplinary $5,000
Linden Ontjes The Muluc Project Literary $3,500
Sandra Osawa Princess Angeline (A video documentary) Media $7,500
John Osebold December Music $3,500
Fiona Otway Local Economies Documentary Media $7,500
Shin Yu Pai Adamantine Literary $3,500
Peter Pereira The Expedition of the Vaccine: World Health, Imperialism, and the Fate of 22 Orphan Boys Literary $5,000
Joe Plotts Queen Shmooquan and the Bad Seed Interdisciplinary $1,000
Bob Redmond Haiku Year Literary $3,000
Joan Stuart Ross A New Weave of Repertoire: Eight Large Paintings Visual $2,000
Amy Rubin Composition of a new orchestral work for the Octava Orchestra Music $3,500
Alex Schweder Stability Interdisciplinary $7,500
Lynn Shelton Humpday Media $5,000
David Shields Untitled Literary $5,000
Ghida Sinno The Strange Case of the President of the United States Literary $2,000
Bill Smith Space in the Heart: A Jazz Opera Music $7,500
Jessie Smith Left and Leaving Interdisciplinary $5,000
Miho Takekawa Japanese Folk Music Project Music $1,000
Timea Tihanyi Outside In, Inside Out Visual $1,750
W. Scott Trimble Traveling Boardwalk Installation Visual $4,650
Matt Wilkins Yonder Media $4,000
Mario Zavaleta Bailadores de Bronce: A Cultural Treasure Media $2,500
Jennifer Zeyl Project X Theater $7,500
2008: The Panelists
Applications from artists of all disciplines are reviewed through a peer panel review process. Artists and arts administrators from King County evaluate applications based on a set of published criteria. Panel recommendations are submitted to 4Culture’s Arts Advisory Committee (a citizen advisory group) and the Board of Directors for final approval. A full list of selected projects by artists is below.
Stephen Elliott
Latha P. Sambamurti
Stephanie Scopelitis
Cheryl dos Remedios
Eugenia Keyser
Misha Neininger
Ricardo Frazer
Byron Au Yong
Kristen Tsiatsios
Christopher Shainin
Stefano Catalani
Michael Seiwerath
Elizabeth Heffron
Lana Ayers
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